Aleksib's contract with HAVU expires

Aleksi "Aleksib" Virolainen's contract with HAVU expired at the end of March and the Finn is now a free agent.

HAVU have parted ways with another crucial player roughly three months after losing Jere "⁠sergej⁠" Salo, who took a break from gaming, citing "personal reasons and lack of motivation".

Before today's announcement, Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen had been a part of HAVU since May, 2017 when the Finnish organization signed ENCORE. So far this year, the 21-year-old Finnish player has averaged a 1.19 rating.

Aleksib is now a free agent

According to a report from Flickshot.fr, Aleksib will join Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli in ENCE, who will round out the roster with sergej, Sami "⁠xseveN⁠" Laasanen, and Jani "⁠Aerial⁠" Jussila.

With the departure of Aleksib, HAVU are left with three core players, Samu "⁠uli⁠" Leirilaakso who is on trial, and Taneli "⁠disturbed⁠" Veikkola, who is currently a backup option. The organization have announced that they will reveal their future plans in the upcoming weeks.

Here is the current HAVU lineup:

Finland Mikko "⁠xartE⁠" Välimaa
Finland Jesse "⁠KHRN⁠" Grandell
Finland Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo
Finland Samu "⁠uli⁠" Leirilaakso (trial)

Finland Taneli "⁠disturbed⁠" Veikkola (backup)

Finland Toni "⁠toNppa⁠" Luhtapuro (coach)

Finland Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.03
Maps played:
533
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.68
Finland Mikko 'xartE' Välimaa
Mikko 'xartE' Välimaa
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.93
Maps played:
647
KPR:
0.62
DPR:
0.66
Finland Otto 'ottoNd' Sihvo
Otto 'ottoNd' Sihvo
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.16
Maps played:
227
KPR:
0.79
DPR:
0.64
Finland Taneli 'disturbed' Veikkola
Taneli 'disturbed' Veikkola
Age:
25
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.98
Maps played:
203
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.71
Finland Aleksi 'allu' Jalli
Aleksi 'allu' Jalli
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.10
Maps played:
1052
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.65
Finland Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Age:
21
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
276
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.65
Finland Samu 'uli' Leirilaakso
Samu 'uli' Leirilaakso
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.97
Maps played:
94
KPR:
0.65
DPR:
0.65
Finland Jesse 'KHRN' Grandell
Jesse 'KHRN' Grandell
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
456
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.66
Finland Jani 'Aerial' Jussila
Jani 'Aerial' Jussila
Age:
24
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.16
Maps played:
196
KPR:
0.79
DPR:
0.65
Finland Jere 'sergej' Salo
Jere 'sergej' Salo
Age:
16
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.18
Maps played:
185
KPR:
0.80
DPR:
0.63
Finland Toni 'toNppa' Luhtapuro
Toni 'toNppa' Luhtapuro
Age:
-
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
-
Maps played:
0
KPR:
-
DPR:
-
#1
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Poland KasPro
finland good
2018-04-02 18:54
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15 replies
#3
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United Kingdom Tendies
Ence ence ence
2018-04-02 18:54
0
This kid have never participated in any big lan yet he is on the front page so I'm pretty sure he paid hltv, he is as famous as I am, a NOBODY.
2018-04-02 19:39
0
13 replies
+1 name one famous finnish player Thats right, u cant
2018-04-02 20:04
0
12 replies
#107
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France magiblunt
Sunny
2018-04-02 20:24
0
4 replies
Who?
2018-04-02 20:42
0
3 replies
#111
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France magiblunt
Entry fragger for mousesports
2018-04-02 20:44
0
2 replies
#139
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
nex | 
Germany Xirif
For who?
2018-04-03 01:18
0
1 reply
2nd team of the world this month according to HLTV's ranking
2018-04-03 10:31
0
Name checks out
2018-04-02 21:07
0
#126
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Poland BAN_ANIME
allu? sunny?
2018-04-02 22:05
0
5 replies
who?
2018-04-02 22:12
0
4 replies
#130
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Poland BAN_ANIME
-99/8
2018-04-02 22:12
0
3 replies
nt patryk
2018-04-02 22:13
0
2 replies
#132
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Poland BAN_ANIME
my name isn't patryk nt ahmed
2018-04-02 22:14
0
1 reply
rekt
2018-04-02 22:39
0
+ sergej
2018-04-02 18:55
0
24 replies
allu sergej aleksib +2 ENCE IS COMING
2018-04-02 18:58
0
23 replies
#40
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Finland eMBeJaana
Allu aerial aleksib sergej +1
2018-04-02 19:01
0
10 replies
+1 should be otto, but I guess allu wants to AWP, so otto is not yet option.
2018-04-02 19:06
0
9 replies
finland super team would be good sunny allu sergej aleksib zehN
2018-04-02 19:15
0
5 replies
#105
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Korea shglet
2 good players 1 young aimer and 2 retards don't see a super team there
2018-04-02 20:20
0
3 replies
#117
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United Kingdom cacafuego
aleksib not retard -1
2018-04-02 21:12
0
better than viro
2018-04-03 18:59
0
1 reply
#150
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Korea shglet
we have: 1 professional player finland has: 1 professional player we have: 1,3mil people finland has: 5,5mil people ez? keep taking muslims and crying
2018-04-03 21:01
0
zehN is a whiny gimli
2018-04-03 11:00
0
Maybe zehN?
2018-04-02 19:17
0
2 replies
I somehow doubt, but he would be good support player. But I have feeling he is cooking something with HS.
2018-04-02 19:22
0
1 reply
Actually HS is already in talks with EU team with CosmeeeN :p
2018-04-02 19:59
0
#41
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Finland wrathh
aerial and xseveN
2018-04-02 19:02
0
7 replies
-xseveN +zehN or +juho and top1 Nordic is coming
2018-04-02 19:17
0
6 replies
#94
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Finland SininenMF
zehn and juho too toxic
2018-04-02 19:52
0
#94
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Finland SininenMF
zehn and juho too toxic
2018-04-02 19:52
0
#94
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Finland SininenMF
Edit. Sry for double
2018-04-02 19:53
0
#102
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Finland wrathh
juho replaced Aerial in SuperJymy and I believe they don't want to play with zehN. iGame is basically the only proper Finnish team, whose best player ENCE wouldn't have poached if they left him
2018-04-02 20:06
0
2 replies
#116
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Finland childrapist
And this is why you dont comment without any actual knoweledge. afaik jymy asked many players incl. zehn to join them atleast 2 times.
2018-04-02 21:12
0
1 reply
#120
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Finland wrathh
they as in ENCE does not want zehn
2018-04-02 21:19
0
#90
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Finland Taynz
Sunny Zehn Superteam
2018-04-02 19:44
0
3 replies
don't touch suNny - the best EU player in the best EU team
2018-04-02 21:03
0
2 replies
This
2018-04-02 23:19
0
#151
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Finland Taynz
God SuNNy
2018-04-04 06:40
0
#4
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Finland CoFmo
EZ4ENCE
2018-04-02 18:54
0
tial
2018-04-02 18:54
0
EZ4ENCE
2018-04-02 18:54
0
rip
2018-04-02 18:55
0
#9
jL | 
Estonia Eduzera
LOL
2018-04-02 18:55
0
poor ottond
2018-04-02 18:55
0
ence
2018-04-02 18:55
0
who?
2018-04-02 18:55
0
#13
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Slovakia ypsylonnn
ence
2018-04-02 18:55
0
EZ4ENCE
2018-04-02 18:55
0
Ence aleksib confirmed
2018-04-02 18:55
0
#16
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
kaboose | 
Finland fe11owH
not expected Kapp
2018-04-02 18:55
0
ENCE aleksib
2018-04-02 18:55
0
who crank
2018-04-02 18:55
0
#19
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Finland Lammasrakastaja
looking good for ence :D
2018-04-02 18:55
0
Ez4ence
2018-04-02 18:55
0
who
2018-04-02 18:56
0
Ez4ence
2018-04-02 18:56
0
1 reply
+1
2018-04-02 21:12
0
nice people kind of knew this weeks ago...same with aerial ez for ence
2018-04-02 18:57
0
#30
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Belgium HLTVnewfag
Ez4ence
2018-04-02 18:57
0
please only report tier 3+ if you want hltv to make it mainstream one day
2018-04-02 18:58
0
8 replies
#42
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Sweden drakendilf
Ence > UK
2018-04-02 19:02
0
6 replies
0/8
2018-04-02 19:02
0
5 replies
#45
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Sweden drakendilf
Allu even in bot mode is better than any UK player in CS GO history. :D
2018-04-02 19:03
0
4 replies
ok this thread isnt about allu or ence whats your point abdul
2018-04-02 19:04
0
3 replies
Only Englando player who is better than aleksib is probably Smooya. Btw I don't know other UK players
2018-04-02 19:16
0
2 replies
ok? i never said they should report on uk players either they shouldn't post articles like this tho
2018-04-02 20:08
0
1 reply
#146
Faceit level 10  | 
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Finland whiskey_csgo
NT mohamed
2018-04-03 11:54
0
ikr, like why did they do news about smooya?
2018-04-03 19:02
0
so ez for beast aerial #EZ4ENCE
2018-04-02 19:02
0
#47
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Ax1Le | 
Portugal KSED
Who's gonna be ENCE's IGL?
2018-04-02 19:04
0
4 replies
aleksib, he has been IGL HAVU afaik.
2018-04-02 19:07
0
3 replies
#73
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Ax1Le | 
Portugal KSED
Is he recognized as a good IGL, or is it that they have no other option?
2018-04-02 19:14
0
2 replies
HAVU has done surprisingly well in my opinion, considering they still have KHRN and xarte. So he likely is good IGL, but we'll need to say what he can do now that he has some firepower and pressurse to succeed.
2018-04-02 19:20
0
#113
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Finland BlackMatter
Havu came out of nowhere and were making progress month after month with aleksib as an igl. Ofc unfortunately Sergejs departure affected them pretty much...
2018-04-02 21:06
0
Feel sorry for otto. He is solid player. I would have taken him into ENCE, but as he plays AWP, it is currently not possible I guess.
2018-04-02 19:05
0
who
2018-04-02 19:05
0
EZ4ENCE
2018-04-02 19:08
0
EZ CONTRACT FOR ENCE
2018-04-02 19:10
0
#64
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
NAF | 
Czech Republic GzzM
-xseven +ottond pls
2018-04-02 19:10
0
#78
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Sweden Officialf0rest_
One for The future xDDDDDDD
2018-04-02 19:19
0
#80
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
ZywOo | 
United States TeamSESH
Ez Ence
2018-04-02 19:21
0
#81
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Europe Moltak
EZ4ENCE
2018-04-02 19:21
0
#83
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Finland saunamdma
First promising lineup Finland has had in csgo.
2018-04-02 19:23
0
1 reply
Fuck ye
2018-04-02 19:37
0
Welcome to ENCE
2018-04-02 19:26
0
Ence
2018-04-02 19:27
0
#86
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Poland Dzamp3R
n1ce
2018-04-02 19:27
0
allu + aleksib
2018-04-02 19:40
0
This is news?
2018-04-02 19:45
0
#92
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Malaysia byaIi
aleksib allu zehn ottoNd sergej
2018-04-02 19:45
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1 reply
#93
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Malaysia byaIi
no suNny because mouz too good
2018-04-02 19:45
0
Who tf cares lul
2018-04-02 19:55
0
3 replies
You haha
2018-04-02 21:14
0
2 replies
I dont even know who he is lmao
2018-04-02 22:05
0
1 reply
Yes but u clicked the article so in my eyes that would seem you are interested
2018-04-02 22:09
0
#98
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
coswell | 
Finland coswell
Aerial and xseven?? Very underwhelming....
2018-04-02 19:56
0
#99
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Canada |Frog
ENCE: allu sergej Aerial Aleksib xseveN
2018-04-02 19:58
0
#104
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Belgium Sicario_
no jOELZ no party
2018-04-02 20:18
0
ok cool
2018-04-02 20:21
0
#108
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Finland Smoonah
ez ence pick up
2018-04-02 20:32
0
#109
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Germany xkillua
who?
2018-04-02 20:40
0
2 replies
no one from dizlown tier 100 french team
2018-04-02 21:20
0
1 reply
#134
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Germany xkillua
Palestine looooooooooool, is it even a country?
2018-04-02 22:29
0
#121
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Russia H4RRICANE
they have contracts damn
2018-04-02 21:19
0
#122
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Europe Heavon
So what?
2018-04-02 21:20
0
#124
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United States sundby11
rip havu 07.2017-04.02.2018
2018-04-02 21:32
0
ezence
2018-04-02 21:49
0
#133
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Israel xpicyyy
ez ence
2018-04-02 22:20
0
ez 4 ence
2018-04-03 01:13
0
long live ence
2018-04-03 12:28
0
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